I was just over high school, and I was kind of artsy.
That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.
A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.
'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.
With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.
It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.
I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.
I thought if only we could go on and meet again, shy as strangers.
What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.
In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
